[SECC] CQ160 CW WF4W Single Op HP

[Bill Coleman]

Inverted L’s work great on 160m, provided you put down enough radials. 

I had a trapped 160, 80 and 40m inverted L up in Floyd county with 24 radials. Worked very well up there. I’ve put up that antenna in Walton and Fulton counties. In Walton, I used a top fence rail as a radial, in Fulton, I have two elevated radials. It doesn’t work nearly as well as it did in Floyd county.

> On Feb 1, 2021, at 7:40 AM, RJ Hubbard <rj.wf4w at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Date: Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 7:34 AM
> Subject: CQ160 CW WF4W Single Op HP
> To: <3830 at contesting.com>, <rj.wf4w at gmail.com>
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>                     CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW - 2021
> 
> Call: WF4W
> Operator(s): WF4W
> Station: WF4W
> 
> Class: Single Op HP
> QTH: 
> Operating Time (hrs): 6
> 
> Summary:
> Total:  QSOs = 427  State/Prov = 52  Countries = 4  Total Score = 52,696
> 
> Club: South East Contest Club
> 
> Comments:
> 
> My 160m game is WEAK! My 80/160m OCF is prettyt much an NVIS antenna - it's
> worthless. So I stuck a 19' lenght of wire into the 80m resonator of my 6btv and
> turned it into an invered L :) -- works pretty well domestically - DX isnt
> happening on this thing though.
> 
> Still a lot of fun - what CW contest ISNT fun? I was able to get some pretty
> decent runs and rates and I'm beginning to like S&P more and more as I find
> the balance between runs and S&P.
> 
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Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
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